[DeTomaso] NPC - RE: eBay fees a lot higher now?

[Will Kooiman]

Ebay has every right to manage their company however they want.

I don't like what they're doing, but I consider it a shame and not my right
to have it the way it used to be.

In my Utopia, companies would strive to create the best possible product at
the least possible price.  That's not the way capitalism works, though.
Once companies reach a monopoly (or sometimes before), they squeeze
consumers as much as possible.  They don't care about the product anymore.
They only care about making money.  That's what's happing with ebay.

The problem is they're the #1 auction site, and #2 isn't even on the radar.
Craigs list is probably #2, but it's not an auction site.  If there was a
reasonable alternative auction website, they would be driven by the market,
and they'd stop screwing their customers.  Maybe.

In the old days, ebay was pretty cool.  Now, not so much.

I don't like that I have to click past multiple advertisements.  I'm really
getting sick of all of the ads in my life.  Cable TV is nuts.  5 minutes of
the show, 15 minutes of commercials.  Why do I have to deal with the same
garbage on ebay.  They already make enough on fees.

I don't like the fees, but I suppose they need to get revenue somewhere.  9%
is extreme, though.  If you take a look at how many items are sold and
multiply it by 1% or even .2%, they would still have a serious amount of
positive cash flow.

I don't like the search engines where you type "DeTomaso" and you get 20
pages of items that can't possibly be for anything DeTomaso - like Xenon HID
headlight kits.

But... until there's another auction site that works as well as ebay, I'm
going to continue using it.

I recently posted that I'm cleaning out my garage.  The parts are on ebay.
One auction is currently at $1.00 and another is at $1.25.  With ebay
charging 9% on the total, and with shipping calculated as actual, I'm going
to end up paying someone to take the $1 and $1.25 items.  The $1.25 item is
for 2 Mallory coils.  One of them has never been on a vehicle.  So, I can
either pay someone to take these or I can throw them in the trash.  Of
course, I'm not going to throw away a perfectly good coil, so...


-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of E B
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 11:18 AM
To: JJD1010 at aol.com
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC - RE: eBay fees a lot higher now?

There is a way to search Craig's List Nationally, and even some
International listings. It is called jaXed. I use it to search Craig's List
all the time and it has been quite profitable more than once!

The address is: www.jaxed.com

It also searches eBay and other sites. 

Down with eBay! Which reminds me... I need to go see how my eBay listings
are doing. 

Regards,
Emiliano

Sent from my i5 Prototipo

On Jun 26, 2011, at 9:54 AM, JJD1010 at aol.com wrote:

> eBay used to be a great place to visit until they started the trend to  
> having eBay stores. Now when you search on Pantera there are 10 times as
many  
> listings and only 10% are relevant to Panteras. The rest are stores that 
> spam  everything. I don't have the time or inclination to look at 100s of

> gaskets, car covers, etc., so I don't go there anymore. 
> 
> As for pricing, they own the market for individuals wanting to  sell
stuff. 
> There is no other place for individuals to go, except for Craiglist  which

> only operates locally. Why are we surprised that they are raising  our 
> prices. Somebody has to pay for their push to compete with Amazon and
their 
> ridiculous acquisition of Skype.
> 
> I wonder why Google hasn't gotten into the business and why Craigslist  
> doesn't provide a way to search nationally.
> 
> Jeff
> 6559
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